GORK, THE TEENAGE DRAGON: A NOVEL

Gork, the Teenage Dragon: A Novel by Gabe Hudson

Gork is the nerdiest dragon at WarWings Military Academy. He has a giant heart and tiny horns. His nickname is Weak Sauce.

Today before his high school graduation, he must ask a female dragon to be his queen. The result is a rollicking quest for true love on the most madcap day ever known to a high school senior – dragon or otherwise.

Along the way, Gork gets help from his best friend Fribby, a fierce female robot dragon who is brilliant, snarky, and totally obsessed with death; and Athenos II, his sentient spaceship who carries a shocking secret from his childhood. Ultimately, Gork will have to lock horns with his evil grandfather, Dr. Terrible.

Can a quest for true love make a hero out of a dragon?

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 “Hilarious . . . Gork is less Game of Thrones and more The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with fire-breathing characters and a John Hughes-esque plot.”

The hyperkinetic teen-dragon comedy-romance you never knew you wanted.”

— Kirkus Reviews

Cleverly plotted and executed.”

— Publishers Weekly

Smart, subversive, funny and fun.”

— The Maine Edge

Like a Generation Z teen was set loose on the works of Terry Pratchett.”

— Barnes & Noble, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog

Gork is a fantastical, outrageous, coming-of-age love story.”

— Unbound Worlds, Summer’s Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Pick

This story is amazingly clever and just downright funny.”

— Melissa Lojo, Master Bookseller, Book People Book Store

Hilarious, satisfyingly fun. . . [as] if John Hughes wrote a Game of Thrones dragon comedy..”

— The Chicago Review of Books

My one & only crush.”

— Melissa L.-O., Harvard Book Store

Like nothing you’ve ever read before—a quirky, wildly fun ride.”

— Jarry Lee, BuzzFeed

Genre-bending, age-defying appeal.”

— Library Journal

Like a mad scramble to find the right date for prom—but with dragons.”

— Booklist

Gork is the funny, wonderfully-written coming of age story about a dragon from another planet that is equal parts smart, silly, and sincere!”

— Nikki, Newtonville Books Bookstore

An instant dragon tale classic.”

— Brief Take

What Other Writers Are Saying About Gork

Combines so many things I count on in fiction I love—great expansive humor, a big-hearted optimism about all that’s possible in the world and in fiction, a very clear moral purpose and a sense of social responsibility—plus a willingness to experiment with the form of writing, to push the art of writing further, and with passion.”

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About Gabe

Gabe Hudson

is the author of Dear Mr. President, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hudson was named one of Granta's 20 Best of Young American Novelists and was a recipient of the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, and the Adele Steiner Burleson Award in Fiction from the University of Texas at Austin. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, Black Book, and Granta. For many years, he was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's. He lives in Brooklyn.